期刊
CARBOHYDRATE RESEARCH
卷 329, 期 3, 页码 587-596出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6215(00)00222-6
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scleroglucan; molecular weight; conformation; monocytes; TNF-alpha
The immunomodulating properties of comb-like branched (1 --> 3)-beta -D-glucans scleroglucan, schizophyllan and lentinan depend on branching pattern, molecular weight and higher-order structure. The effect of weight average molecular weight M-w and higher order structure of scleroglucan, on stimulation of human monocytes cultured in vitro to secrete tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) was investigated. The higher order structures of the scleroglucan samples were determined by electron microscopy. The data showed that the samples with a linear wormlike, triple helical structure with M-w less than 50 x 10(4) g/mol or larger than 110 x 10(4) g/mol stimulated the monocytes more efficiently than samples with M-w in the range (67-110) x 104 g/mol. The denaturation of the linear triple helices by NaOH (> 0.25 M), followed by neutralization yielded blends of linear and macrocyclic topologies with concomitant irreversible reduction of the cytokine inducing activity compared with the untreated scleroglucans. The dose-dependent ability to activate monocytes to cytokine production was not restored following annealing of the denatured-renatured samples, despite the fact that electron micrographs revealed similar structures of these annealed samples to the starting material. Pre-incubation of monocytes with antibodies against cluster of differentiation antigens CD14 or CD11b reduced the scleroglucan potency to stimulate TNF-alpha secretion mainly for mAb against CD14 in the presence of serum. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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